Political Quotes

“in his final op-ed, Congressman Lewis said: ``You must also study and learn the lessons of history because humanity has been involved in this soul-wrenching, existential struggle for a very long time.'' Some may take those as just wise words from a civil rights icon, but for me, I take that statement as a personal charge because I now have the privilege, the blessing, of representing not only the birthplace of the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, but also the birthplace of John Lewis, the man who often referred to himself as the boy from Troy, which is a small town in Pike County, Alabama, which is now in District Two, a district, I might add, that exists in its current format today because of the Voting Rights Act, the very same Voting Rights Act that John Lewis risked his life to see enacted. Those words in that final op-ed, to me, are a charge to not forget where we have come from or what we have been through as a nation, but also a charge to be vigilant and to commit to ensuring that we never go back to certain days in this country's past. That charge is becoming increasingly more important by the day.”